ironnut
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I decided to move up from lurking. A while back I was searching Google images for something mechanical and ran across the Restored 1930's auto shop that BB767 started. Amazing things he and others have done. Kudos to Thomas for creating and sustaining that thread.
My wife and I live on 55 acres of sage brush in southwestern Idaho. My shop and equipment storage area is a fair sized steel clad pole building packed to the rafters with handy looking stuff, tractors and vehicles. I have a 10x20 area as a machine shop, lathe, mill and a 12x20 area as a fabrication/repair area oxy/acetylene, mig,tig,stick. Interior is strictly utilitarian and in some respects much like Virgil Johnson's 1930's auto shop though a bit less cluttered. As my wife has noted, I have a lot tools and stuff in that building which requires a certain level of organization, but I am a long ways from being neat and tidy. Nothing in the shop remotely looks like an old garage or service station. The equipment shed, essentially an ag building, was built in 1992, and has been extended 2 additional times. In regards to old service stations and garages, I am a one 3rd owner in a very old gas pump, the ones with the glass reservoir that you filled and then dumped into your gas tank. It was part of a long gone COOP (Statex) service station in the little village next our family farm. I may retrieve it from Nebraska and restore it. Mostly I use my shop and time to rewind the entropy clocks on our ancient equipment, tractors and crawlers, dump truck, etc. In the course of my lurking I have seen some really nice ideas and shop implementations that make me want to do something beyond the utility look.
gordon
My wife and I live on 55 acres of sage brush in southwestern Idaho. My shop and equipment storage area is a fair sized steel clad pole building packed to the rafters with handy looking stuff, tractors and vehicles. I have a 10x20 area as a machine shop, lathe, mill and a 12x20 area as a fabrication/repair area oxy/acetylene, mig,tig,stick. Interior is strictly utilitarian and in some respects much like Virgil Johnson's 1930's auto shop though a bit less cluttered. As my wife has noted, I have a lot tools and stuff in that building which requires a certain level of organization, but I am a long ways from being neat and tidy. Nothing in the shop remotely looks like an old garage or service station. The equipment shed, essentially an ag building, was built in 1992, and has been extended 2 additional times. In regards to old service stations and garages, I am a one 3rd owner in a very old gas pump, the ones with the glass reservoir that you filled and then dumped into your gas tank. It was part of a long gone COOP (Statex) service station in the little village next our family farm. I may retrieve it from Nebraska and restore it. Mostly I use my shop and time to rewind the entropy clocks on our ancient equipment, tractors and crawlers, dump truck, etc. In the course of my lurking I have seen some really nice ideas and shop implementations that make me want to do something beyond the utility look.
gordon